Hd. Jiang et al., THERMOSOLUTAL TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN LARGE LEWIS NUMBER ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS, International journal of heat and mass transfer, 39(4), 1996, pp. 841-850
A detailed scaling analysis of transport phenomena by laminar natural
convection along a vertical hat plate is made for multiple-component e
lectrochemical systems. The convective flow is generated by both horiz
ontal temperature and concentration gradients under limiting current c
onditions. Both binary and well-supported ternary electrolytes are con
sidered. Thicknesses of the thermal and solutal boundary layers, conce
ntration variations of all species in each solutal layer, and the heat
and mass transport rates are estimated for electrochemical systems wi
th large Lewis numbers and buoyancy ratios. The solutal boundary layer
structure is constructed for the well-supported electrochemical syste
m. The results from the present scaling analysis are compared with ava
ilable analytical results and experimental data.